WestEddy

They did. And I showed them this string. They were profoundly surprised by the irony of nobody criticizing Cleveland having $2M unspent, and using it to move Myles Straw's contract, instead of taking a gamble on any player. It's very cute when 6-year-olds ask you if all of the negative Nellies (as they called them) were burner accounts for people in the Guardians' front office. They also voted overwhelmingly that you're "a stinky butt". Kids.

You got a weird way of referring to yourself in the third person, no one.

They could sign every man, woman and child in the DR for $10k each and not touch their international pool.

A guy like Keller walks into a job, and he can't go back in time and shake a 13 year old's hand 3 years ago. Good thing the guy who was supposed to line up the signings for the 2024 period is gone.

I agree. Also of note to the people screaming for the Sox to sign dudes in the last weeks of December with what's left in their allotment, all the known guys are signed. It's like we want them to scour the beaches for young guys throwing rocks in the water, and if somebody looks like a pitcher, give him $100k.

Bad omen? I'd just think Cruz should think about progressing, or he may not get the requisite 6 years to fade that previous signings have gotten.

This truly is the doldrums. The Sox Twitter feed I set up is all Bears' head coaching arguments.

Every post-season has a couple of teams that are stacked. Padres, Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Rangers, Phillies, Braves, Mets. Then you have the teams that put together a nice core, and coast for most of a decade - Astros, Cubs, Orioles, Guards, Nats, Brewers, Cardinals, Giants, D-backs, Twins, D-Rays Goodness, look. I've just rattled off about 2/3 of baseball. Then you get the weirdo teams that shoot up for a couple of years. Royals, tigers, White Sox, Blue Jays, A's. If that last bunch would just run their businesses better, you have 80% of baseball that are at least semi-competitive for most of the time. The Dodgers grind down their pitchers to a nub. That's why they need a rotation of 10 guys. You don't have to root for injuries. They're just going to happen. On top of it, guys like Betts, Freeman, Muncy - they're all on the wrong side of 30, and in a few years, they're going to be paying league average performers $30+M. Dynasties happen. It was fun pretending the Astros were the evil empire because they cheated. Or the Yankees. Or the Red Sox for their insufferable fans.

With the way the Dodgers chew through pitchers, Kopech will start 6 games, get his next TJS, and they'll be trading for Martin Perez.

Yeah, there was a time when it got tiresome watching the Cowboys and 49ers go to the Super Bowl regularly. Richard Dent even signed with the 49ers to win a ring. Teams built to win over a period of time isn't "bad" for their sport.

B-R pitchers' WAR explained. https://www.baseball-reference.com/about/war_explained_pitch.shtml

Blue Jay players are paid in US$

I think he could have signed in the previous period, but that would have greatly truncated his time to evaluate suitors.

He has to be signed to a minor league deal, which I believe is fairly bare-bones. If MLB catches wind of any side deals that escalate his salary, they could void his contract, make him a free agent, and sanction the Blue Jays.

I would guess no.

More people to cut....

Uecker's HOF speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7dG5HCKeWA

Euker on Carson, early 70's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHFClLGqz8w

So why do you complain about individual moves? Canaan Smith-Njigba, Michael A. Taylor, Joey Bart, all of them would have been pathetic moves, in your eyes. and even if every Tim Hill worked out, you'd still fall back on "nothing will change until Reinsdorf dies". If you can't admit that Perez would have been a better backup catcher than Maldonado, then you're just trolling.

Nobody's calling it a good move. It was a bad signing. In the grand scheme of things (neutralizing the negative voices in the clubhouse for a weak manager), I can understand why Getz brought him in. It would have made more sense to bring in Salvatore Perez, but he would have hurt too many SoxTalk feelings.

Amazing misreading of the sitch.

I'm not defending the move. I didn't like it when it happened. I can understand the logic behind it, therefore, I don't need to scream myself hoarse damning it. Getz didn't sign Maldonado because he thought he was getting a 10 WAR catcher at a discount. I don't think it takes a stretch of the imagination to understand that Grifol wanted Maldonado to help control the clubhouse, and Getz, who wanted to fire Grifol anyway, was happy to grant him that sop.

Fair enough. Most of his moves blew up in his face. Bad luck.

No, actually, it's the pickup of Canaan Smith-Njigba.

You call out every move as stupid, regardless of whether it's widely panned or not.